First Lady Michelle Obama countered Ann Romney’s personal, heartfelt speech at last week’s Republican National Convention with her own portrait of discovery over the past four years in the White House: “I have seen firsthand that being president does not change who you are. No, it reveals who you are.”

In her address on the first night of the Democratic National Convention, Obama deviated from the standard script she’s been using on most of her campaign stops, which touches on her life with Barack Obama while outlining his policy achievements and rallying supporters to enlist their friends and neighbors as volunteers.

“Every day, the people I meet inspire me. Every day they make me proud. Every day they remind me how blessed we are to live in the greatest nation on earth,” she reflected on her journeys across the country meeting people as first lady.

Obama said she was concerned about coming to Washington because before her husband ran for the Oval Office, life “was filled with simple joys.”

“Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at grandma’s house, and a date night for Barack and me with either dinner or a movie because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both,” she said. “And the truth is, I loved the life we had built for our girls. And I deeply love the man I built that life with and I did not want that to change if he became president.”

“I loved Barack just the way he was. You see, even back then, when Barack was a senator and presidential candidate, to me, he was still the guy who picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by in a hole in the passenger side door. He was the guy whose proudest possession was a coffee table he’d found in a Dumpster.”

She said they both had grown up in families without much in the way of material possessions, but “we learned about dignity and decency. That how hard you work matters more than how much you make. That helping others means more than just getting ahead yourself.”

The first lady praised the president for healthcare reform, student aid, cutting taxes, and bringing “our economy on the brink of collapse to creating jobs again.”

“In the end for Barack, these issues are not political. They’re personal,” Obama said. “Because Barack knows what it means when a family struggles. He knows what it means to want something more for your kids and grandkids. Barack knows the American dream because he’s lived it.”

She said that “when it comes to his character and his convictions and his heart,” the presidency has not changed Barack Obama.

“He is the same man who started his career by turning down high-paying jobs and instead of working in struggling neighborhoods where a steel plant had shutdown, fighting to rebuild communities and get folks back to work. Because for Barack, success isn’t about how much money you make. It is about the difference you make in people’s lives,” Obama said.

“And I did not think it was possible, but let me tell you today, I love my husband even more than I did four years ago. Even more than I did 23 years ago when we first met,” she added. “…I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as us and them. He doesn’t care whether you are a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above. He knows that we all love our country, and he is always ready to listen to good ideas, he is always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.”

The first lady said that, at the end of the day, her “most important title is still mom-in-chief.”

“But, let me tell you, today, I have none of those worries from four years ago, no. Not about whether Barack and I were doing what was best for our girls,” she said.

“Because today, I know from experience that if I truly want to leave a better world for my daughters, and for all of our sons and daughters, if — if we want to give all of our children a foundation for their dreams, and opportunities worthy of their promise, if we want to give them a sense of that limitless possibility, their belief that here in America, there is always something better out there if you are willing to work for it, then we must work like never before, and we must once again come together, and stand together for the man we can trust to keep moving this great country forward.”

Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and opinion columns have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.
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You want Republicans to lead the Country to success… without removing Obama first?

This is akin to trying to drive across a two lane bridge, with a catastrophic car accident blocking both lanes. No amount of saying, planning, desire, will get you to the other side of the bridge, until you have removed the obstacles that prevent any and every attempt to improve the situation.

Further, any agenda to move the country forward to prosperity naturally requires, not merely desires, but REQUIRES, the removal of Obama. Anything less will result in either no gain, or negative movement.

This is an adult world. We can have removing Obama as highest priority, without sacrificing our efforts to fix and improve this country. Removing Obama and fixing the United States are not mutually exclusive. If anything, the first is a per-requisite of the second, because Obama will certainly not do anything to fix it.

Dave, you know, partisan politics aside, that Obama was elected on the assumption – no, the promise – that he would walk us out of recession. He has not. To the contrary, his policies and societal engineering “experiments” have taken us backwards.

It’s as simple as that. Obama must be a one-term President, as he has been detrimental to us all, and is unrepentant about his future plans and goals.

Troll alert: he’s using the “forward” mantra again. It’s like, aroma therapy for your mind, you just keep that word bouncing around and it hypnotizes you into being a useful idiot and repeating it every chance you get.

And Dave, the only way to move forward is to reverse course and get the heck out of this dead end trip we’ve started on, and back on the road to freedom which leads to success and prosperity. Got it?

The true denial in this country was what happened for 8 years prior to the Obama Administration. That period was the worst disaster that America has ever faced. 4 years later now, are we better off?

4 years ago, the banks were closing and lending were frozen all across the country. Remember people lining up at banks to withdraw their savings to ensure that their banks were not the ones closing?

Today, you don’t hear about banks closing and lending being frozen. Where is the line of people at banks all across the country withdrawing their funds?

4 years ago, the Dow Jones was at 6,547 points at the lowest point in March 2009 shortly after Obama took office.

Today, the Dow Jones is at 13,047 points and steady as she go.

4 years ago, GM and Chrysler was at the brink of bankruptcy and most Republicans, including Romney, said that we should not bail them out. Even most of President Obama’s advisors stated the same case, which he completely ignored and moved forward with saving the auto industry, an extremely risky bet.

Today, Chrysler has completely paid back their debt and GM has paid back $26 billion of the $49.5 billion bailout. GM is back on top as the world’s #1 automaker and both companies have reported record profits in over a decade. Had the auto industry failed, the ripple effect would have been tremendous linking to car dealorships, auto-parts stores, GM and Chrysler service stations, etc., all across America. Millions of jobs would have been instantly lost.

4 years ago, mortgage foreclosures were being reported in the media on a weekly basis all across the country.

Today, do we hear of these foreclosures in the media on a weekly basis all across the country?

4 years ago, Wall Street was on the verge of a total collapse as I mentioned above with the Dow Jones as low as 6,547 points at one point. Investers were scrambling to salvage whatever stocks that they could turn over immediately.

Today, Wall Street is thriving and investments are safe again. The fear of investments are no longer on consumer minds.

Are you not aware that the first two years of his presidency, Obama had a totally Democrat-controlled House and Senate. Only after the 2008 uprising against his horrific policies die it get tougher. Even then, plenty of good bills passed the Republican-controlled House, and Harry Reid refused to bring any of them to the floor. He should be horsewhipped all the way back to his home state.

i am not into racist remarks. james keep your bad thoughts to yourself that is what the deocrates are using not real adults… stick with the true meaning of what is at hand… we are all GODS children no matter what color creed,race or other wise.

Thanks for the lecture, Grandma Anonymous. But I don’t see the racism in james’ remark, he was paying a compliment. Michelle-as-Wookie is a longtime internet meme, largely based on her height and absurdly styled hair.

But comparing Michelle to a Wookie is grossly unfair. Wookies are hardworking, beloved for their bravery and loyalty to friends. Compare Chewbacca’s behavior in EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, to say, Michelle’s treatment of Oprah Winfrey. There is no comparison.

Michelle constantly demands that others “work” for Barack, then she goes skiing. A Wookie would never do that to Han.

Get your sci-fi characters straight. She doesn’t look like a Wookie, she looks like a Klingon. Like one of the Duras sisters. Acts like them too–devious, conniving, greedy, and power-hungry. M’chelle would be her name. Picture her with a ridged forehead, carrying a batlev. You get the idea.

I don’t think she or her zealot husband have a very big capacity for self reflection or humility. That limits one’s ability to grow. I suspect Obama is the first man to occupy that awesome office and remain, or claim to remain “unchanged” No, he’s bigger than that! Bigger than the Whole Universe, in fact! Her comments exhibit a couple with frightening pathological personalities.

Of course they feel bigger than the white house and, what it suppose to be about.
Obama is a man so full of hubris that he needs a 16ft bust of himself build for everyone to worship.If this is not beyond hubris and godless, I don’t know what is. It’s as though he – just like satan – is challenging God’s authority and being, his idol after all is Alinski – who’s book is dedicated to satan himself.
These two should never made it into the white house and, need to be evicted asap.

She didn’t forget the economy. As with the rest of the liberal, progressive, democratic elite their portion of the economy is doing just fine. Their buddy Barry’s large and in charge funneling government contract, jobs and money their way. Hey for them the economy is doing just fine. Unlike the middle class that he wooed and then screwed. It is unfortunate that the American electorate was so gullible 3 1/2 years ago………talk about buyer remorse.

One day the Obamas will leave the White House like all past presidential families.

Bill Clinton earned over $100 million writing books, on corporate boards, or speaking engagements. No doubt the Obamas will find themselves in the upper 1% in wealth as the Clinton’s did.

Here’s a question. Will America’s 99% families and chlidren be better off after the Obama’s are gone? Do you think the $6 trillion in new debt added during the president’s first 4 fiscal years has added to our strength or to our weakness?
Do you think the country will be stronger or weaker with the new debt the president plans to add from 2012 to 2016? What about the Obama plan to add another 4 trillion to the national debt by 2016?

She is so obnoxious and fake. Does she care that gas is sky-high and so are groceries? She takes lavish tax-payer funded vacations, but my family had to forego ours? I cannot wait to see them go back to Chicago! Oops, I said Chicago! RAAACCCIIISSSSTTTT!!!!

Hey, Jmel, the Obamas aren’t going back to Chicago if they get kicked out of the White House — Party House is more like it; they’re going to live in Hawaii in the $35-million house their supporters are fixing to buy them — in Oahu where they frequently vacation.

It was painful to see Moochelle try and empathize with middle- and lower-middle class Americans, pretending that she and her hubby, who’ve amassed a fortune thanks to affirmative action advantages, feel their pain.

The words were winning, but the message, like Michelle’s eyes, was empty. I’m with Charles Krauthammer: I don’t buy a word she said.

Obama can golf all day, every day, and as for book tours: Both Barry and Shelley will charge huge sums and will add first-class airfare and palatial accommodations to their contracts.

Living in Hawaii will not only be easy for them — especially in a $35-million house, no doubt with help — it’ll be a shysters’ paradise: far enough away from the opprobrium of middle Americanns, who they’ve royally screwed for the past four years, but close enough by air to see all their friends and make all the money they can on the talk and book-signing circuits.

Yeah truly amazing, She is so proud of living in the USA, the place she never was proud of until they saw fit to nominate her saintly husband. The speech was
ten pounds of crap in a five pound bag. How lame and fake it was is reflected in how the media sycophants are self pleasuring themselves over it. Takes a phony to know a phony.

You are the one inside a bubble; the utopian fascist bubble of hope, change, and forward. Stay inside that bubble until it bursts. Afterwards you are going to need some serious shades to protect your eyes from the brightness of reality as your messiah is revealed to be just another Chicago thug. Don’t believe me? Just ask Bill Clinton.

What was amazing about it? The amount of fake nonsense she spewed to try and pass her elitist out-of-touch limosuine liberal husband off as a commoner (while he’s spent most of the last year attending those fancy Hollywood dinners)? Was it “amazing” that she tried to convince us that Barack “punish our enemies” Obama isn’t about “us versus them?”

And what exactly is “amazing” about her? Her ability to take lavish vacations while the US economy continues to suffer? Is she “amazing” because she was finally “proud” of this “mean country?”

It was an amazing speech all right. Charles Krauthammer noted its brilliance in that she imputed all of Obama’s actions to his personal virtue rather than to any ideology. Completely bypasses conservatism/liberalism and beatifies him at the same time! Mind you Krauthammer didn’t believe a word of it and neither do I, but it’s a brilliant strategy.

As for Michelle herself, she amazes me but only in bad ways. There’s her hypocrisy for starters. She lauded Obama’s saint-like self-denial, his embrace of selfless poverty when he could have had high-paying jobs. And yet she sports $6800 jackets and goes on million-dollar vacations to luxury resorts! She is indeed amazing.

Facts please. The speech was mostly about Barack and her and her children. OK. I can understand that if Barack was running for Father in Chief.

And they did help people. Themselves, the greenskeepers at the golf courses, their event planners, the Unions, undocumented immigrants, Muslims out to slaughter their neigbors, Putin, people with no ambition but to live on food stamps paid for by an organization $16 trillion in debt with no plan to meet their interest payments owed more and more to foreigners, state government workers, foreign bond holders (maybe), China (maybe), warmongers of all stripes waiting for the US and the Pax Americana to collapse (as is their plan), the anarchists, atheists and occupy people, the sex-obsessed abortionists and the race-obsessed exploiters, the environmental, anti-progressive fuedalists (wind mills, Really?) the anti-colonialists who won in the 1970′s, the happily unemployed getting their unemployment checks and living in their parents’ basement; democratic bundlers and leftists and socialists generally.

If you think this is a good plan with a good outcome to be expected, then you should vote for MOTS — more of the same. I assure you. Read a little history, like the French Revolution. It will not lead to a good outcome. You are blind and will be disappointed as most have already. Scales. Eyes. Look it up.

How can you be so blind? They are leeches, sucking the blood from the American culture. The middle class (which includes myself) has lost almost 50% of personal wealth since he took office. The GM takeover cost us our retirement nest egg. He gave them billions, then they took bankruptcy anyway, and assets were distributed not to the bondholders, but to the union coffers for their retirees.

Nobody noticed it, nobody commented on it; when MO was introduced, one of the descriptions of her was “unpaid”. It’s not the first time that the FirstLady’s position was described as “unpaid”. MrObama said that about her, too.

Don’t be surprised if some idiot Dem proposes that the FirstLady be given a salary.

Mrs. Obama’s speech will be extremely well received — better received than Ann Romney’s speech. Was it full of corny lines and B.S.? Well, yeah. But it was a well delivered speech and she looked better than she normally does (and when the media’s got your back, that’s just about all that counts).

People want to love Michelle Obama. Now that Oprah is off the air, America’s suburban white women need someone else to be their vicarious black BFF. Most the time the media has to work overtime to make her more … uh, accessible to the American public, but tonight she made their jobs easy for them.

So far, the Democratic convention has been a lot more effective than the little fraternity social the Republicans had last week in Tampa. The Dems are just as mean, nasty and loose with the truth as ever, but after the first night, their convention has probably already accomplished more than the GOP did in three nights.

The fawning first lady…I mean frowning first lady forgot to mention that she had a political-pay-back, no-show $350,000 a year job at the U of Chicago when Barack was a Illinois senator. Corruption city, of course, is where Michelle was born and raised.

Plus, Michelle neglected to admit that it was her idea to take God out of the Democratic Convention.

Or that, as she walked off the stage, the chairman of United Airlines handed her an additional 5 million Frequent Liar Miles. No wonder her $10,990 dress was lined with asbestos.

I wonder if it took Shirley Temmple four years to learn to sing and dance and remember her lines? A great speach? Why not? She’s already been overpaid for doing nothing but vacationing on taxpayers money, eating food she didn’t know the names of a few years ago. It takes a real slumbag to pretend to greatness while sneering at and denegrating those whose bounty she takes for granted.

Any news caster or actress could have done better.
All Obama had to do was read a pre-written speech off a teleprompter .

Democrats long ago traded off rational thought,common sense and actual debates.That bores the general public. Democrats are selling and manipulating emotions: High drama,sex,coolness and popularity are their goals.Milking shallow,self sympathetic and egotistical people is far easier than explaining why you buried the middle class in unemployment ,excessive living expenses and $140,000 debt per working family . Or why 48.5% of the population is supporting the rest.Or why you’ve exploded welfare rolls and disability claims to hide unemployment numbers.

Or how you promote global warming as a world crisis that can be solved with smaller populations ,massive taxes and billions of $ worth of fraudulent companies . And how massive immigration will cure the problem by legalizing over 20 million illegals that drain resources ,require financial aid,food,housing,utilities and land,that increases environmental damage and economic demands that are unfulfillable and unsustainable .

Weepy,hyper emotional speeches are selling a product that the maker of the product wants you to buy for their benefit – not yours. The DNC is like a Hallmark card or a heroin fix. You feel good for the short term but the long term affects are a real pain.

It revealed Truman and Eisenhower as decent men. It revealed Nixon as a paranoid, who broke the law to win an election he had no chance of losing.

It revealed Lincoln as a much stronger man than his past would have indicated. It revealed Andrew Johnson as unable to make up his mind.

It revealed Ulysses S. Grant as a man willing to accept being called “the President who presided over a corrupt Capitol” to wipe out that corruption. It revealed Warren G. Harding as a man who didn’t recognize corruption in his own Cabinet.

It revealed FDR as an inept “social engineer” who made a much better wartime Commander in Chief. It revealed Lyndon B. Johnson as someone who was hopeless at both.

It revealed Bill Clinton as a Rhodes Scholar with a serious deficiency in personal responsibility. It revealed Ronald Reagan as much smarter than the “smart set” thought he was.

It revealed the Bushes (father and son) as tougher than their detractors believed they could be. It revealed Jimmy Carter as just the opposite- a man who was, and, is, overwhelmed by his fears.

No, the White House doesn’t change the person the President truly is. It simply reveals it.

In Obama’s case, it has revealed a grasping, egotistical, conceited egotist, who believes that his self-perceived perfection justifies thuggery. This puts him in the same category as Nixon.

It has revealed him as an ideologue who is impervious to facts. This puts him in the same category as Woodrow Wilson, pre-Zimmermann Telegram.

It has revealed him as a spendthrift, who is convinced that everyone else’s money is rightfully his to spend- even when it doesn’t really exist. This puts him in the same general area as FDR prior to 1939.

And it has revealed him as considering our enemies his friends, and our friends his enemies. And to consider any of us who do not worship him as enemies, as well. This puts him… in a class by himself, as no previous American President has been this delusional. Or cynical, or simply power-hungry and revenge-obsessed. In fact, obsessed with exacting vengeance for crimes that never actually existed outside of the fevered imaginations of some of the more radical “deep thinkers” of the left. (Such as his parents.)

This is what the White House has revealed about this President. All of which are things it was the news media’s responsibility to inform the electorate of, prior to the last election. A responsibility they deliberately shirked, for “philosophical” reasons. (It isn’t just the President the White House lays bare; it does the same for his supporters.)

With what we now know of the man we elected four years ago, why would we re-elect him?

And boy does being in the White House reveal your character. As Hillary Clinton has Huma Abedin, a female member of the MuBros as her most trusted advisor. And “Big Sis” has MuBros advisors “helping” with homeland security. Is that why they need a gazillion hollow points? Humm, one has to wonder.

How about spending us into oblivion in four easy years. Would he have gotten elected if he said he was going to have budget deficits of a Trillion Dollars per year? And just how do you defend such excess. They’re not GWB’s deficits, they’re all O’Dismal’s. Free abortions, free healthcare, free cellphones, free food, free housing, and a generally a free-for-all. Who’s going to pay for this. Note to the middle class: there are not enough rich people to pay for it. So here’s looking at you middle class to pay for it.

And just like he’s redistributed your wealth, O’Dismal has redistributed your healthcare. Just how are you going to get the healthcare you need, when 15 unelected bureaucrats will determine if you get care and treatment? Will you have to pay off your congressman to get care? How about the care and compassion of the healthcare people after they’ve been unionized. Its like getting compassion from the IRS or the DMV. And if they treat you poorly, they’ll always have the union to help them keep their jobs. And seniors, get ready to die. Just go home and take your Tylenol and go away. Its a two-fer. If you die, they don’t have to pay for social security or medicare.

Yeah. Unfortunately, membership in the cult is a prerequisite for finding employment in the Mainstream Media. And the media cultists get to write the official narrative that the non-political junkie public hears.

They’re successfully painting Republicans as lying scoundrels, and offering nothing more than unicorn pixie dust as the answer to our problems (again), but fair or not, the Democrats will get a big bounce from this convention. Maybe 5-10 points.

So Romney and Republicans have their work cut out for them (i.e., thy’re probably screwed).

She’s right. The last 4 years have revealed ObamaRx for the America hating communist that he is. The Constitution hater that he is. The rule-of-law hater that he is. The man who couldn’t even get one vote from his own party for his budget that he is. The man who cares more about his far left agenda than about middle-class America that he is.

I think a core part of a 2nd term Obama presidency will be to sign a nonaggression pact with Iran, ie the Dempsey-Ahmadinejad treaty modeled on the Molotov- von Ribbentrop treaty of 1939, where Israel takes the place of Poland. Obama will then establish a coalition of the willing-Iran, Egypt, Turkey and Saudi Arabia as an axis against Israel. Given the rapprochement between Egypt and Iran, and Egypt purchasing German submarines, this axis is already developing

Glad to see the racist and cryto-racist remarks tapered off early in the thread.

I thought it was a good speech, and sincerely hope Obama wins. I am better off than I was 4 years ago, housing prices are rising here, the restaurants and stores are full of customers. Employment is rising.

I find Obama’s lack of military service disturbing, but not as disturbing as Romney’s blatant draft-dodging. Obama today is basically channeling Eisenhower (read the 1956 Republican platform). In contrast, Romney and Ryan merely wish to serve their hidden masters who are anxious to accelerate the looting of our economy while catering to the baser prejudices of the illiterati.

4 years ago I was a birther and believed Obama was a Muslim. Last year I changed my registration from Republican to Democrat after 25 years. The final straw? The House Republican’s debt limit stupidity which got our credit rating lowered and their refusal to consider work with the other party to accomplish anything even if it was in their own interest. The brainless ‘baggers who signed the “no new taxes” pledge were in violation of their oath to serve the Constitution, putting party politics above the good of their country. That may not be treason, but it might be treason’s little brother.

Applying Occam’s Razor, ask yourself if it is more likely that Obama is a secret Muslim Manchurian candidate bent on destroying the USA, or a overly sincere, nerdy Chicago pol who made it big and is trying to do the best he can as the nation’s first black president?

Applying Occam’s razor, I too have to doubt your conversion from a birther to an Obama apologist, especially given your characterization of the debt limit negotiations last yearand saying that Romney is a marionette for the hidden cabal which is nothing but partisan drivel.

I would also say that you saying Romney was a draft dodger by choosing to serve his church on a two year mission at age 19 (something that is expected of all Mormon young men) is grossly unfair. And if you think about it, what do you think the chances are that Obama would have been a TRUE draft dodger given what we know about him, if he had been old enough to serve in Vietnam. Seriously, do you want to compare Romney and Obama’s youth (choomgang coke snorter versus volunteer missionary)???

@ eon: Obama was not educated as an academic socialist, he is an attorney (just like Mitt). I”m still trying to figure out what an “academic ideologue” is and whether it is an insult. Communication is important.

An academic ideologue is someone who pursues dogmas which “play well” inside academia, i.e. the eponymous faculty lounge. In other words, they are entranced by theories of government and social engineering which get applause from other academics on purely philosophical grounds, irrespective of their actual applicability or practicality in the real world.

Which you would have figured out for yourself if you’d bothered to read the next three sentences.

And yes, it is an insult. But then, I consider the word “socialist” to be both descriptive and an insult. Because socialists always claim to be “doing good”, but invariably produce what only a lunatic could define as “good”.

I don’t really give a rat’s hat whether Romney’s church expected him to go to France or North Dakota to bring enlightenment to the Lutherans. If you hide behind your church to weasel out of your obligations as a citizen while tens of thousands of your generation are in harms way, then you have no business running for President. Screw him for a coward.

Obama did NOT dodge the draft, and whether he would have if he was older is kind of pointless. What if. I doubt if Obama was a cocaine user, since getting a law degree requires the kind of dedication and brain power unknown to most cokeheads. Anyway, the Choomgang was evidently about pot, which is kind of mainstream these days.

You’re right, hidden cabal may be a poor choice of words, since the Koch Bros are right out there in the open. We have the best politicians money can buy.

Well, both the birthers and the Koch-conspiracy theorists are paranoid nutbags, so I guess you just changed who you blamed for all the world’s problems. Note that this does NOT make you suddenly seem reasonable. You were delusional when you were a birther and you’re delusional now.

@master
Occam’s razor –> what you say doesn’t square with what you say. I mean what birther republican starts complaining of Koch brothers?

As for Obama’s cocaine use, he admitted it in his book. Unlike many past presidential candidates, Obama has openly admitted that when he was in High School and College, he smoked marajuana and snorted a little bit of cocaine.

Here’s the passage from his book, Dreams from My Father, where he discusses his drug use:
“I had learned not to care. I blew a few smoke rings, remembering those years. Pot had helped, and booze; maybe a little blow when you could afford it. Not smack, though—Mickey, my potentional intiator had been just a little too eager for me to go through with that.

Educate yourself…

And I too said he was NOT a draft dodger, but if he had been a teen/20something in the 1960′s, given the people surrounding him, there is no doubt in my mind that he would have been a draft card burning dodger. Not to mention he’d have gotten the same deferment that Romney did (going to college). And Romney did have a draft number in the lottery that was really high.

And I’d just have to say that you are quite bigoted to think that a young man following the dictates of his religion in what is considered service to others (whether you agree with it or not) is weaseling out of his obligations to society.

And Obama didn’t have to be drafted. He could have volunteered to serve in the military. He was of age. But wait, during the 1980′s when he was in college he had lots of negative things to say about the military. Just read this from his Columbia days. Hardly a pro-military piece…Comparing Reagan’s military buildup to Hitler’s military buildup in the 1930′s.

Listening to the left parse Anne Romney or the right do the same for Michelle Obama reveals a tedious, if spirited tribalism. Here we have two incredible, beautiful, strong women, held up as part of the worst side of our culture by the folks on the other side. Ain’t it grand?

Four years as president revealed who Obama was; he was NOT the person who spoke those thrilling words during his candidacy. He went against all the important aspects he derided during the campaign and revealed that he was exactly what he rallied against.